[Glade-users] Apparent bug in glade-3 with copy and paste

[Gerald Britton]

Thanks Tristan.  What you say makes sense.  I was expecting too much.
I guess I could work around it by making my new project the same
format then changing it just before saving it, right?

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys !
>
>   Eeek you got me ! well, I can frankly say up to this moment
> that I did not anticipate this use case.
>
> Im going to call it a bug and the fix at least for now will
> be to disallow such copy/pastes across projects with different
> formats.
>
> To shed some light: there are 2 aspects which make the format
> differ, some (most) objects are only loaded/saved differently
> (which is why this might work for Scott), in many corner cases
> though, the actual data representing the UI differs (take
> for example, the internal image of an imagemenuitem vs
> the builder format's "image" property).
>
> For object conversion at copy/paste level we would need
> to introduce a per-class backend function to handle conversions
> at the object level, Glade currently only has a conversion
> routine for each widget catalog and only converts when the
> whole project is converted.
>
> It would be nice having it work the right way, although I
> dont have the time for that now...
>
> Cheers,
>        -Tristan
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Gerald Britton
> <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi -- as part of a project to migrate from libglade to GtkBuilder, I
>> am using glade-3 (Glade 3.6.3) as a tool.  I'm trying to do the
>> following:
>>
>> 1, startup glade-3 and open the current libglade-format file
>> 2. select a widget and copy (or cut)
>> 3. create a new glade file (Ctrl-N) and set it to GtkBuilder 2.12
>> 4. Paste the widget I copied from the old file
>>
>>
>> WHen I do this,  a widget gets pasted alright, just not the one I
>> copied!  Is this expected behaviour or a side effect of copying from
>> libglade format and pasting into GtkBuilder format?
>>
>> --
>> Gerald Britton
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>



-- 
Gerald Britton